From Stephen Brown: "A learning object approach implies reusability, a database and (probably)
CMS, a metadata schema, vocabularies... It all seems rather complicated. It
might be more reassuring (and manageable) if you were to adopt a simpler
strategy of units of study addressing each of the topics in turn.
Strictly speaking a photograph is not a learning object because on its own there is nothing
educational about it. It becomes a learning object when associated with a
learning activity (whatever the learners are supposed to do with it) and a
learning outcome (what they should be able to do as a result of engaging
with it. Without these aditional bits its just a fragment of resource."

From Rob: "whatever we can describe with our chosen LO metadata schema".

From Adrian: "A content item that is described, via metadata, sufficiently well
enough to allow it to be used in a variety of different courses without
modification".

From Laura: "A leaning object is supposed to fulfil a specified learning outcome. A
content item, or whatever we can describe with metadata may not fulfil
this criterion".